Pathways to Progress

Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship

John L. Ayala, Salvador Güereña, John L. Ayala, Salvador Guerena, John L. Ayala, Salvador Guerena

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Year: 2011
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781610691178
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Supplying contributions from Latino librarian practitioners across the nation, this anthology provides broad coverage of the subject of Latino/Spanish speaking library service in the United States. Emphasizing public, school, and academic libraries, Pathways to Progress: Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship taps the leading minds of the Latino library world to provide expert discourse on a wide spectrum of library services to Latino patrons in the United States. This collection of articles provides an accurate, insightful discussion of the issues and advances in Latino library service. Coverage of library service to the Latino community includes subjects such as special collections, recruitment and mentoring, leadership, collection development, reference services to gays and lesbians, children services, and special library populations. Contributors include library practitioners who are of Mexican, Chilean, Peruvian, Nicaraguan, Puerto Rican, and Cuban descent. Best practices are presented and explained in-depth with practical examples and documented citations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Series Foreword
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1 Common Denominators in the Development of Latino Library Leadership
• CHAPTER 2 Collection Development: An Overview for the Spanish Speaking
• CHAPTER 3 Public Library Services and Latino Children: Getting it Right in the 21st Century
• CHAPTER 4 Academic Libraries: Pathways to Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Relationships in Chicano and Latino Studies
• CHAPTER 5 Special Libraries and Collections: “Invisible as Night, Implacable as Wind” California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA): The First 20 Years
• CHAPTER 6 Special Collections: The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries
• CHAPTER 7 Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Lesbian, Queer: Being There: Queer Latin@ Representation in the Library
• CHAPTER 8 Recruiting and Mentoring: Proactive Mentoring: Attracting Hispanic American Students into Information Studies
• CHAPTER 9 Leadership in Libraries: Latino Leadership in Libraries
• CHAPTER 10 Digital Resources: Developing Chicano/a Latino/ a Digital Resources
• CHAPTER 11 Conference Presentations
• CHAPTER 12 The Role of the Library Associations
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors